Faz tempo que disseram que não era mais para pegar menino nos matos
Narrativas de partos entre indígenas Tapeba e Tremembé no Ceará
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5783152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | An Lucia Farah De Tófoli (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | THESIS |
| Publisher | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (PUBLISHER • BR) |
| DOI | 10.47749/t/unicamp.2020.1161747 |
| OpenAlex | W4388854269 |
| Language | PT |
| References cited | 2 |
Starting from field research carried out from 2016 to 2018, this thesis is an ethnography of narratives about childbirth in the indigenous peoples Tapeba and Tremembé, respectively located in Caucaia and Itarema municipalities, in Ceará State, Brazil.Using a diachronic perspective, I aimed to follow the perceived rupture during the last 30 years, in a transition process from traditional childbirths, performed in the villages by indigenous midwives, to medicalized care and childbirth in hospitals.To do so, I reviewed the historiographic and anthropologic literature on the theme in dialogue with ethnographic analysis.The Tapeba and Tremembé narratives, taken as a starting point, give access to fundamental dimensions of the traditional childbirth system.This exercise brings to light at least four issues: i) the transformation felt on the childbirth care since the implementation of the health public policies for indigenous people; (ii) the importance of people who were directly involved and responsible for the childbirth process, such as midwives, pajés (shamans) and those who pegavam menino ("catch/hold children"); (iii) knowledge and practices implicated in the childbirth process inside the indigenous villages -such as corpo aberto ("open body"), teas, baths and massages -that carry a semantic weight attributed to the placenta and resguardo (postpartum confinement); and (iv) childbirth as a threshold between life and death, as well as the place of faith and devotion that are present on the childbirth dynamics.By facing these questions, I argued that walking through the memories of traditional childbirth allows us to understand birth as a socially oriented event, promoter of social relationships and bonds among persons, place and context involved in birth when it takes place
Theme (computing · Indigenous Health and Education · Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare · Migration, Racism, and Human Rights
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |